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Torture team

Offers a study of a document, signed by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in December 2002, that authorized the use of eighteen controversial interrogation techniques that were used at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib and set the stage for a betrayal of the Geneva Convention.

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  • "Offers a study of a document, signed by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in December 2002, that authorized the use of eighteen controversial interrogation techniques that were used at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib and set the stage for a betrayal of the Geneva Convention."@en
  • "On December 2, 2002 the U.S. Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, signed his name at the bottom of a document that listedeighteen techniques of interrogation--techniques that defied international definitions of torture.The Rumsfeld Memo authorizedthe controversial interrogation practicesthat later migrated to Guantanamo, Afghanistan, Abu Ghraib and elsewhere, as part of the policy of extraordinary rendition.From a behind-the-scenes vantage point, Phillipe Sands investigates how the Rumsfeld Memo set the stage for a divergence from theGeneva Convention and the Torture Conventionandholds theindividual gatekeepers in the Bush administration accountable for their failure to safeguard international law. The Torture Teamdelves deep into the Bush administration to reveal:' How the policy of abuse originated with Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney and George W. Bush, and was promoted by their most senior lawyers ' Personal accounts, through interview, of those most closely involved in the decisions' How the Joint Chiefs and normal military decision-making processes were circumvented' How Fox TV's 24 contributed to torture planning' How interrogation techniques were approved for use ' How the new techniques were used on Mohammed Al Qahtani, alleged to be "the 20th highjacker"' How the senior lawyers who crafted the policy of abuse exposed themselves to the risk of war crimes charges."@en
  • "International lawyer Philipps Sands uncovers the story behind the alleged human-rights abuses sanctioned by the US government. Who were the lawyers, military personnel and politicians involved in the memorandum signed by Donald Rumsfeld which authorized interrogation techniques forbidden under the Geneva Convention?"

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  • "Torture team"@en
  • "Torture team : an investigation into deception, cruelty and the compromise of law"@en
  • "Torture team : Rumsfeld's memo and the betrayal of american values"
  • "Torture team : Deception, Cruelty and the Compromise of Law"
  • "Torture team rumsfeld's memo and the betrayal of american values"@en
  • "Torture team : Rumsfeld's memo and the betrayal of American values"
  • "Torture team : Rumsfeld's memo and the betrayal of American values"@en
  • "Torture team: uncovering war crimes in the land of the free"
  • "Torture team : deception, cruelty and the compromise of law"
  • "Torture team : deception, cruelty and the compromise of law"@en
  • "Torture team Rumsfeld's memo and the betrayal of American values"
  • "Torture team Rumsfeld's memo and the betrayal of American values"@en
  • "Torture team : uncovering war crimes in the land of the free"
  • "Torture team : uncovering war crimes in the land of the free"@en

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